Babble & Squeak is a community-focused podcast created to give people a voice, share lived experiences, and open up honest conversations around real-life issues that matter.
Hosted by Lisa Everett, a trained counsellor with 17 years of experience, the podcast is led by someone who has spent many years supporting vulnerable adults, working with complex needs, and helping individuals manage challenging behaviour, emotional wellbeing, and personal change.
Lisa brings both professional knowledge and real-life understanding to each conversation, creating a calm and welcoming space where guests feel comfortable speaking openly and honestly.
The podcast brings together guests from different backgrounds to explore important topics including mental health, gratitude, resilience, homelessness, ADHD, coercive control, gambling awareness, and many other everyday challenges people face.
Each episode is designed to be relatable, supportive, and thought-provoking — creating a space where people can speak honestly, learn from one another, and feel heard.
The aim of Babble & Squeak is simple: giving voices to people in the community. Through conversation, storytelling, and shared experience, the podcast encourages understanding, reduces stigma, and helps listeners feel connected.
Whether discussing personal journeys, recovery, wellbeing, or social issues, every episode offers real conversation with warmth, honesty, and purpose.
Series one
Episode 1 - Importance of Positive Mental Health
Our podcast explores the importance of positive mental health, emotional wellbeing, and the everyday steps people can take to build resilience and maintain balance in their lives. Through honest conversation and real experiences, we discuss how mental health affects confidence, relationships, recovery, motivation, and daily wellbeing.
The podcast highlights the value of talking openly, seeking support, and recognising that mental health is just as important as physical health. It also looks at practical ways to improve wellbeing, including routine, connection, self-care, positive thinking, and accessing the right support at the right time.
By sharing lived experiences and meaningful discussion, the podcast aims to encourage understanding, reduce stigma, and remind people that support is available and recovery is possible.
Episode 2 – “Gratitude”
In this powerful episode, Dez speaks openly about gratitude and how it has shaped his perspective on life, challenges, and personal growth. Through honest reflection and real-life experience, he explores how learning to appreciate even the smallest things can create strength during difficult times, improve wellbeing, and help build a more positive future. Dez shares a genuine and relatable conversation about resilience, perspective, and the importance of recognising value in everyday moments — reminding listeners that gratitude can often become a powerful foundation for change.
Episode 3 – Difference & Resilience
In this powerful episode, the conversation explores difference and resilience — recognising how individual experiences, challenges, and personal journeys shape who we are. Through honest reflection and real-life perspective, the episode highlights the strength it takes to overcome adversity, adapt to change, and continue moving forward despite setbacks. It is a thoughtful discussion about accepting difference, building inner strength, and understanding that resilience often grows through the most difficult moments.
Episode 4 – Homelessness and Helsinki
In this episode, Lisa interviews Henry about their recent visit to Helsinki, Finland, where they explored Housing First projects and gained first-hand insight into how the country has successfully reduced and, in many areas, effectively eradicated homelessness. Together, they discuss what they observed, the principles behind the Finnish approach, and how long-term housing solutions, support, and policy have helped create lasting change. The conversation offers a fascinating look at one of the world’s most recognised homelessness models and reflects on what can be learned from it.
Episode 5 – Grief & Loss
In this thoughtful and sensitive episode, the conversation explores grief and loss, reflecting on the emotional impact that loss can have on individuals and how people navigate difficult periods of change, sadness, and adjustment. Through honest discussion and personal insight, the episode looks at the different ways grief can be experienced, the importance of understanding emotions, and how support, reflection, and resilience can help people move forward while carrying loss in meaningful ways.
Episode 6 – Coercive Control
Lisa interviews 2 guests who work and support people who have experienced coercive control. In this important episode, Lisa interviews two guests who work closely with and support people who have experienced coercive control. Through informed discussion and professional insight, they explore what coercive control can look like, the impact it has on individuals, and the challenges many people face in recognising and escaping controlling relationships. The conversation highlights the importance of awareness, support, and understanding, while giving voice to an issue that often remains hidden.
Episode 7 – Living with ADHD
In this honest and engaging episode, Ashley talks openly with Lisa about life with ADHD and the impact it has had on day-to-day experiences, relationships, emotions, and personal growth. Ashley shares real insight into the challenges of living with a mind that is constantly active, from struggles with focus and impulsivity to the frustration of feeling misunderstood by others.
Through a warm and thoughtful conversation, Lisa explores how ADHD affects confidence, routine, and mental wellbeing, while Ashley reflects on coping strategies, self-awareness, and learning to recognise personal strengths alongside the difficulties. The episode offers a genuine perspective on neurodiversity, resilience, and the importance of being heard without judgement.
A powerful conversation that helps build understanding around ADHD and gives voice to lived experience.
Episode 8 – Gambling Awareness
In this powerful episode, Lisa talks with Kai from Ara Recovery For All about gambling addiction, the hidden impact it can have on people’s lives, and the journey towards recovery.
Kai speaks openly about his own experiences with gambling, how addiction developed, the effect it had on his wellbeing and daily life, and the difficult steps involved in recognising the problem and asking for help. Together, Lisa and Kai explore how gambling addiction can often remain unseen, affecting mental health, relationships, finances, and confidence, while also discussing the importance of specialist support and understanding.
The conversation also highlights the work of Ara Recovery For All, a service helping people affected by gambling harm to access guidance, recovery support, and practical help. This episode offers honesty, hope, and reassurance that recovery is possible with the right support.
If you or someone you know needs support, contact Ara Recovery For All Gambling Service on 0330 1340 286 or visit https://www.recovery4all.co.uk
Series Two
Episode 1 - Disappointment
In this honest and thought-provoking episode, Lisa interviews James about disappointment — how life’s setbacks, missed opportunities, and difficult moments can affect confidence, emotions, and the way we move forward.
James speaks openly about personal experiences of disappointment, reflecting on how expectations do not always match reality and how difficult periods can leave lasting emotional impact. Together, Lisa and James explore how disappointment can influence mental wellbeing, relationships, motivation, and self-belief, while also discussing the importance of resilience, perspective, and learning how to grow through challenging experiences.
Through a warm and reflective conversation, the episode highlights that disappointment is something everyone faces, but with support, self-awareness, and time, it can become part of personal growth rather than something that holds us back.
A relatable and meaningful conversation about coping with setbacks and finding strength through difficult moments.
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